Two dead in pair of shootings in Marinette County

Jul. 2, 2013

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Gannett Wisconsin Media

POUND Marinette County authorities are sorting through a pair of shootings that left two men dead on Monday night.

According to Marinette County Sheriff Jerry Sauve:

A man called the sheriff’s office about 10:10 p.m. Monday to report an armed man in his family cabin on North 5th Road in the town of Pound, about two miles east of Pound and Coleman.

The sheriff’s office soon received another call about a car that had crashed into a nearby home. A man was removed from the car, and deputies found he had been shot. The man, who was in his late 20s, was taken to a Marinette hospital and then to a Green Bay hospital, where he died.

The investigation led deputies to a nearby location where they found a man, believed to be in his 70s, inside a vehicle with a shotgun and a handgun. The man refused to surrender, so police used an armored vehicle from the Brown County Sheriff’s Department to block the vehicle so the man couldn’t flee.

The man eventually pointed a gun at deputies, who shot and killed him. There were no other injuries, and Sauve said the public is not in danger.